Felix Hernandez Quotes
The whole world can hit a fastball if it's in the right place. I just try to change it up.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I love anything to do with history.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'
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The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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The whole world can hit a fastball if it's in the right place. I just try to change it up.
